Rethinking Religion and Radicalization -

Rethinking Religion and Radicalization

Terrorism and Violence Twenty Years After 9/11
Buch | Hardcover
288 Seiten
2025
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-35008-3 (ISBN)
79,95 inkl. MwSt
With contributions from a range of regions and disciplines, this open access volume offers theoretically compelling and empirically rich new insights on the relationship between religion and violent extremism.

The role of religion and religiosity in processes of radicalisation to violence has been at the forefront of debates around terrorism and extremism for decades. The events of 9/11 gave new impetus to these debates, cementing assumptions about the role of Islam as the key driver for religiously inspired violent radicalisation, and defining the way in which radicalisation to violence is understood. The years since 9/11 have seen a striking diversification in the terrorist and violent extremist landscape, yet the treatment of how religious beliefs, concepts and histories are entangled with established and emergent violent ideologies and social movements has changed far less. By looking beyond Islamist-inspired or attributed terrorism, this volume explores how violent extremists instrumentalise religion and religiosity in unexpected ways, from Orthodox Christianity and Hindutva to ‘conspirituality’, far-right extremism, and single-issue social movements.

The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com

Dr Michele Grossman, AM is Professor and Research Chair in Diversity and Community Resilience at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, where she leads the Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies. Dr H.A. Hellyer FRHistS is a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies in London, and also a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC.

List of contributors

Acknowledgements
Section 1: Religion and violent radicalization: Concepts and contestations
Introduction: Remapping the terrain of religion, radicalization and extremist violence
Michele Grossman and H. A. Hellyer
Religion, radicalization and violence: Conceptual and interpretive issues
Lorne Dawson
The Racialized Logic of The UK’s countering extremism strategy
Tahir Abbas
Section 2: Violent radicalization and the governance of religious diversity
The governance of religious diversity and the challenge of (violent) radicalization in Western Europe Thomas Sealy and Tina Magazzini
Religiously attributed radicalization and violent extremism: Policy responses and impacts on the governance of religion in South-Eastern Europe
Liliya Yakova and Rositsa Dzhekova
The determinants of radicalization in Russia: Is religion to blame?
Marat Iliyasov
The evolution of Salafi jihadi terrorism and state responses in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines
Greg Barton
Section 3: Religion and violence across extremist movements and contexts
A majority with a minority complex: Examining Anti-Muslim violence in Sri Lanka and India
Amar Amarasingam and Shweta Desai
The convergence of land- and blood-centric political theologies in Israel
Atalia Omer
Hindu radicalization in contemporary India
Pralay Kanungo
Section 4: Political mobilizations of religion on the extremist right
Marriage of convenience? The nexus of religious extremism and far-right militancy in Israel and the United States
Alejandro Beutel and Arie Perliger
‘Orthodoxy or Death’: The embrace of Orthodox Christianity by the modern far right
Lydia Khalil
Preparing for Day X: Looking into Germany’s extreme right-wing radicalization Frederic Heine and Tina Magazzini
Mapping conspiritual radicalization: The intersection of conspiracy movements, spirituality and radicalization
Vivian Gerrand

Erscheint lt. Verlag 6.3.2025
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-350-35008-7 / 1350350087
ISBN-13 978-1-350-35008-3 / 9781350350083
Zustand Neuware
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